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lurid very vivid (i.e. in color); presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms; glaringly vivid and graphic annihilate destroy utterly; obliterate vivify enliven, animate inscrutable impossible to understand or interpret talisman an object that is typically thought to bring good luck fain pleased of willing under the circumstances; gladly, willingly inquisitorial offensively prying; examination in which the judge has the inquiring role repugnance intense disgust; detestation exhortation communication intended to persuade or urge someone to do something mutability being capable of changing; instability, unpredictability prolific plentiful; fertile; productive constrained unnatural; restricted; forced inviolable never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored caprice a sudden and unaccountable change of behavior or mood; an impulsive action malicious intending to do harm; hurtful, spiteful intangibility the quality of not being able to be touched; the quality of not being able to be defined or understood or measured evoked brought or recalled to the conscious mind reviled criticized in an abusive or insulting manner; condemned impelled driven; urged or forced to action through moral pressure; constrained, exhorted Pequod a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited much of what is now Connecticut in the 17th century; were slaughtered by American settlers imperatively crucially, vitally, critically; commandingly, insistently endue endow or provide with quality or ability; to put something on, dress up in behest a person's orders or command averred alleged--reported or maintained; affirmed--declared as true expatiating elaborate; detailed transgressions sins, violations of moral laws unobtrusive not conspicuous or attracting attention adduced cited as evidence; presented, proposed imbibes absorbs (ideas of knowledge); drinks; receives indefeasible not capable of being penetrated or defeated; not liable to be undone; not able to be lost, annulled, or overturned